Planet Phoebe Friday – 'Balance'

Happy Planet Phoebe Friday! Here is a NEW Phoebe to remind us what the weekend is for...

Balance – "Sometimes you just need to stop and take a moment.."

Phoebe felt completely spun out. She had been going in circles for what seemed like forever. It was time to stop before she spiralled out of control. But because she had been spinning for so long, when she tried to unwind, she couldn’t get her balance. Closing her eyes, she tried to focus on the straight line of the imaginary horizon until finally her equilibrium returned. Feeling centred, steady and calm, she was now ready to take another step. 

"Sometimes you just need to stop and take a moment..."

Have an amazing weekend... see you next Friday! x

Planet Phoebe Friday – 'Paint it Out'

Sometimes I like to just paint - nothing in particular - just how I am feeling. Using what ever colour and brush I feel like and listening to my favourite music, I let out how I am feeling onto a large canvas. Its such a good release – getting lost in the paint strokes and the music – the end result is always a surprise too! I then photograph the painting and use it as a background for one of my Phoebe illustrations.

Here's a favourite Phoebe illo of mine with one such background...

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Phoebe 'Paint it Out' – for this background I seriously needed to paint it red... not sure why?

Phoebe wanted to paint. She had vermilion on the brain. All she could think about was painting scarlet, vermilion, crimson... in fact, she just wanted to paint everything red. What did this mean? Was she angry? Mad? Going mad? She didn’t care. She just wanted to get the red out of her head...

Paint it out... xo